{"id":2209,"date":"2014-04-24T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T06:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/?p=2209"},"modified":"2014-04-21T19:46:06","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T17:46:06","slug":"nexa-vega-n4-backup-before-you-bugger-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/?p=2209","title":{"rendered":"Nexa Vega N4 – Backup Before You Bugger Up!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Topic<\/p>\n

OK with Root<\/a> being achieved on the Nexa Vega N4, the next step for me was to make a backup of the phone.<\/p>\n

Whenever I think about backups, I think about the picture that my first boss, Steve Murray, had printed on his mouse pads that he gave to his clients… Thou Shalt Make Backups…<\/p>\n

\"Thou

Thou Shalt Make Backups<\/p><\/div>\n

Now when I say “backup” of the phone I don’t mean a backup of the photos only, I mean a backup of EVERYTHING. \u00a0The type backup where if anything goes wrong, eg. the phone is “bricked”, you can make a full restore and it would be like nothing happened.<\/p>\n

After doing about 2 hours of research I stumbled across a Windows app called “MTKDroidTools<\/em><\/strong>“. \u00a0It is a backup app specifically created for the MediaTek chipset phones and allows for complete system backups. Instructions on how to use it was on this page<\/a> at NeedROM.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now the site that I wanted to download it from originally, Google Chrome suggested it was not a safe website to do so, so I headed over to XDA Developers again and found a link that was posted by a Senior Member – here<\/a>. \u00a0The download link went to DepositFiles here<\/a>\u00a0for version 2.5.3.<\/p>\n

The first thing you need to do on the phone is to go into Settings<\/em><\/strong> and then Developer Options<\/strong><\/em> and then select USB Debugging<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Next on the PC (I was using my Windows 7 Netbook) extract the MTKDroidTools and run the application as an Administrator. \u00a0Now plug a USB cable into the phone and plug it then into the PC. This is what you should see:<\/p>\n

\"MTKDroidTools<\/a><\/p>\n

The GREEN<\/span><\/strong> in the bottom left shows that the phone is already rooted.<\/p>\n

Now click the second tab : root, backup,recovery<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>and then click the Backup<\/strong><\/em> button:<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Click<\/a>

Click here to start backup<\/p><\/div>\n

By default MTK Droid Tools will back up the whole ROM\u00a0WITHOUT USERDATA<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0(Userdata is everything that the user has setup like Google account, email settings, time zones, etc). \u00a0\u00a0 If you want to back up also your peronal setting then tick Backup User data and Cache<\/strong><\/em>, otherwise let it blank – I did NOT tick it on my backup.<\/p>\n

There is another option Leave Flash Tools File on SD Card<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0which will also store the backup file to the Phone’s SD Card. The suggestion is to just leave it blank,\u00a0\u00a0as storing the file on the SD Card probably will fail if the SD Card is full. \u00a0By default it will save it to the PC for you.<\/p>\n

This is what it looks like while it is backing everything up – LEAVE IT ALONE – it takes a good while (at least 20 minutes) so like I said JUST LEAVE IT ALONE!<\/p>\n

\"This<\/a>

This is what you will see while it is backing up<\/p><\/div>\n

Finally after it has backed everything up it will prompt you to “Packing Backup?”<\/em><\/strong>, just click Yes<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"Make<\/a>

Make a ZIP of your backup – Click YES<\/p><\/div>\n

What is will then do – and it takes a while – is it creates a ZIP file of the system backup. This makes it easier for you copy to another location and manage (so you don’t have like 15 files to worry about). \u00a0Give it time – it takes about 15-20 minutes to complete.<\/p>\n

On your PC under the\u00a0MTKDroidTools Folder<\/strong><\/em> you should see a backup folder<\/strong><\/em> and under that is the ZIP file of the system backup. Save this to a location that you will not loose or format easily…<\/p>\n

Root of phone – Done!
\nBackup of phone – Done!<\/p>\n

Coming up…\u00a0\u201cLets Fix the WiFi MAC Address Issue \u2013 Ourselves\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

(Image Credit – NeedROM.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OK with Root being achieved on the Nexa Vega N4, the next step for me was to make a backup of the phone. Whenever I think about backups, I think about the picture that my first boss, Steve Murray, had printed on his mouse pads that he gave to his clients… Thou Shalt Make Backups… […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2209"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2223,"href":"https:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209\/revisions\/2223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}